496  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {^m6ctl\^lmm' 
temporary  Secretary.  The  first  order  of  business  was  the  reading  of  the  ad- 
dress by  H.  H.  Rusby,  Chairman  of  the  Section.  This  was  devoted  to  the  dis- 
cussion of  ' '  Science  in  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. "  The  Chair- 
man contended  that  "  there  is  no  such  thing  in  our  day  as  impractical  theory  ; 
nothing  which  is  good  in  theory  but  bad  in  practice.  This  is  the  cry  of  either 
ignorance  or  duplicity.  Good  theory  in  these  days  is  always  good  to  practice, 
and,  if  the  practice  be  equally  good,  is  always  good  in  practice.  The  most 
thoroughly  scientific  methods  are,  therefore,  urged  as  the  surest  and,  on  the 
whole,  the  most  rapid  means  of  attaining  to  practical  ends." 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Revision  of  the  U.S.P.  was  then  read  by 
the  Chairman,  Leo  Eliel.  This  was  a  very  lengthy  report,  and  devoted  in  part 
to  a  summary  of  all  the  work  done  by  this  Committee.  The  report  was  referred 
to  Dr.  Charles  Rice,  Chairman  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  Committee.  There  was, 
however,  considerable  discussion  upon  some  of  the  recommendations  contained 
in  this  report.  The  recommendation  that  spirituous  liquors,  etc.,  be  dismissed 
from  the  U.S.P.  was  combatted  by  quite  a  number.  While  quite  a  number  of 
the  members  attested  that  the  calls  for  wines,  brandy,  etc.,  upon  physicians' 
prescriptions  were  relatively  small,  probably  not  more  than  one-tenth  of  1  per 
cent.,  Professor  Lloyd  said  that  more  liquors  were  prescribed  than  we  think, 
and  that,  as  they  are  generally  in  the  house,  the  physician  does  not  write  pre- 
scriptions for  them.  Professor  Remington  thought  that  it  was  a  mistake  to  re- 
commend the  report  of  the  Committee  on  this  subject  to  the  U.S.P.  Com- 
mittee, and  that  the  Pharmacopoeia  is  the  book  where  the  tests  for  distinguish- 
ing between  pure  brandy,  etc.,  and  the  "  stuff  "  that  is  frequently  sold  ought  to 
be  given.  He  would  go  further,  even,  and  advise  that  an  additional  committee 
be  appointed  to  investigate  the  subject,  so  that  tests  should  be  devised  that  the 
physician  and  patient  could  get  the  pure  article  desired. 
Professor  Remington  moved  that,  owing  to  the  illness  of  H.  V.  Arny,  the 
Secretary  of  the  Section,  a  letter  be  prepared  and  sent  him,  deploring  the  loss 
of  his  services  at  this  time,  and  expressing  the  hope  that  he  may  be  permitted 
to  resume  his  duties,  and  that  good  health  and  prosperity  may  be  abundantly 
restored  to  him.  This  was  agreed  to,  and  Professor  Remington  and  C.  A.  Mayo 
were  asked  to  draw  up  the  same.  The  officers  of  the  Section  elected  for  the 
ensuing  year  are  Frank  G.  Ryan,  Philadelphia,  Chairman  ;  Caswell  A.  Mayo, 
New  York  City,  Secretary  ;  F.  C.  Hemm,  Associate.  The  following  papers 
were  presented : 
ADDITION   PRODUCTS    OF    OXIDES   OF  NITROGEN  TO  SESQUI- 
TERPENES. 
By  O.  Schreiner  and  Edward  Kremers. 
The  authors  have,  as  a  result  of  the  action  of  sunlight  upon  the  sesquiter- 
penes, obtained  certain  compounds  which  throw  considerable  light  upon  the 
study  of  this  group  of  organic  substances. 
In  discussing  this  paper  Dr.  W.  C.  Alpers  said  : 
"Dr.  Kremers  remarks  on  the  tendency  of  nitroso-additive  products  of 
sesquiterpenes  to  form  white  polymers  is  of  great  interest  to  me.  During  the 
last  year,  in  the  course  of  experiments  with  araliene,  a  new  sesquiterpene  that 
I  isolated  from  the  ethereal  oil  of  aralia  nudicaulis  (See  this  Journal,  1899, 
p.  370J,  I  noticed  the  formation  of  a  white  mass,  that  I  was  unable  to  explain. 
